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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Three heavy explosions have hit the US consulate in Erbil, the Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Scott Stedman
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Mar 12, 2022
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BREAKING: reports that missiles or rockets have hit the US consulate in Erbil
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#BREAKING Three heavy explosions have hit the US consulate in Erbil, the Iraqi Kurdistan.
3:16 PM · Mar 12, 2022
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Scott Stedman
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Mar 12, 2022
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Explosions also reported at a US base near the airport. Intense US aerial activity is now heard according to local reports.
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Intense video of explosions near the airport
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#erbil #explosion
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3:20 PM · Mar 12, 2022
uponit7771
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Sky News is saying that 5 long range missiles targeted the US Consulate
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#عاجل| #العراق|
مراسلنا: استهداف مقر القنصلية الأميركية في #أربيل بـ 5 صواريخ بعيدة المدى
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Scott Stedman
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All early indications are that some of the missiles were launched from Iranian territory, backed up by videos of missiles flying overhead in Iranian Kurdistan.
3:41 PM · Mar 12, 2022
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Putrid, no doubt.
On edit: added US to subject.
WarGamer
(12,484 posts)The last time Israel hit Iran... Iran struck back at the US base.
cilla4progress
(24,776 posts)On their Twitter?
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CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)Fuck.
WarGamer
(12,484 posts)Renew Deal
(81,876 posts)cilla4progress
(24,776 posts)...
WarGamer
(12,484 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,451 posts)WarGamer
(12,484 posts)Chaos works in Putin's favor.
Irish_Dem
(47,451 posts)He has kept a cool head throughout all of this.
WarGamer
(12,484 posts)Renew Deal
(81,876 posts)Because I doubt the Iranian government would authorize this. Well see
Nevilledog
(51,201 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)blogslug
(38,018 posts)There is this:
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Lawk Ghafuri @LawkGhafuri
Head of @Kurdistan Foreign Media Relations | Building a #StrongerKurdistan | Doing boxing in free time
All news and reports regarding tonights incident in Erbil are still not confirmed and they are all only rumors. More details to be available shortly, as Erbil security forces are still investigating the incident.
5:35 PM · Mar 12, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
OAITW r.2.0
(24,633 posts)Still, I hope our satellite technology can pinpoint the location and our human intel can expose the actors and their political implications of this attack.
blogslug
(38,018 posts)I'm not saying it didn't happen. I was just a little surprised that the big news agencies hadn't done anything about it when I did my initial search.
Here's Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/multiple-rockets-fall-erbil-northern-iraq-state-media-2022-03-12/
"No victims or casualties after Erbil blasts," Saman Barzanji, health minister in Iraq's Kurdistan Province, was cited as saying by state television.
Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Twitter: "Erbil is under fire... as if Kurds were not Iraqis".
Nevilledog
(51,201 posts)I guess I follow accounts more clued into that stuff. Nothing, then everything....lol